Managing data and application security risks cost-effectively

Contents
2 Executive summary
2 Overcoming today’s data
and application security
challenges
4 Industry-leading data
and application security
from IBM
5 Fine-grained data and
application entitlements
and centralized security
policy management
7 User activity monitoring,
auditing and reporting
9 Federated single sign-on
and identity service
11 Application-level and privileged
user operating system
controls
13 Centralized encryption key
management for tape and
disk storage
15 Conclusion
15 Why IBM
16 For more information

Executive summary
Protecting the integrity and confidentiality of data and transactions is becoming
increasingly critical, as the amount of data grows and the risk of loss or
compromise continues. But the need to expand security often conflicts with
the need to reduce IT costs. IBM Tivoli® Data and Application Security can
help achieve these seemingly divergent goals by providing cost-effective capabilities
for securing data and applications. This solution is designed to drive
ROI by controlling the IT costs associated with developing and managing
application security, and by delivering capabilities that help mitigate data
security risks. By addressing the challenges of costs and risk, Tivoli Data
And Application Security can help organizations position themselves
for competitive advantage, enabling them to respond more quickly to new
market opportunities.